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Where’s the Senate on Climate Change?
An objectionable proposal in the Senate seeks to overturn the E.P.A.’s determination that the buildup of greenhouse gases threatens public health.
Categories: Climate Change
Climate Risks That Every Executive Should Know About
When it comes to a company’s impact on climate change, does directors and officers insurance cover executives? While companies say yes, the insurance industry is saying no. We’re talking millions -- perhaps billions -- in legal liability here, so someone will end up holding the bag.
Categories: Climate Change
Extensive relict coral reef found in southern Pacific
Coral reefs are sensitive to climate change and track sea level. New observations show that an extensive coral reef existed in the southern Pacific Ocean thousands of years ago. Researchers used multi-beam sonar, coring, and dating to examine a relict reef discovered in water about 20-25 meters (65-82 feet) deep around Lord Howe Island in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Categories: Climate Change
Why We're Asking the Wrong Questions on Cap-and-Trade
Instead of asking how much cap-and-trade will cost, we should be asking how much it saves us. The glacier in the room is that the real costs won't come from cap-and-trade, but from climate change itself.
Categories: Climate Change
U.N. Climate Change Panel Gets Tips to Boost Credibility
The InterAcademy Council recommends that IPCC improve review processes and transparency in wake of attacks on climate science.
Categories: Climate Change
Top climate change sceptic does U-turn
ONE of the world's most renowned climate sceptics admits global warming is the biggest threat facing the planet.
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Why failure of climate summit would herald global catastrophe: 3.5°
The world is heading for the next major climate change conference in Cancun later this year on course for global warming of up to 3.5C in the coming century, a series of scientific analyses suggest. The failure of last December's UN climate summit in Copenhagen means that cuts in carbon emissions pledged by the international community will not be enough to keep the anticipated warming within safe limits.
Categories: Climate Change
IPCC feels the heat as it is told to get its facts right about global warming
The powerful international body set up to advise governments on the effects of global warming needs a major overhaul if it is not to repeat errors that damaged its credibility and gave succour to climate change sceptics, an independent investigation has concluded.
Categories: Climate Change
Revealed: why failure of climate summit would herald global catastrophe
The world is heading for the next major climate change conference in Cancun later this year on course for global warming of up to 3.5C in the coming century, a series of scientific analyses suggest. The failure of last December's UN climate summit in Copenhagen means that cuts in carbon emissions pledged by the international community will not be enough to keep the anticipated warming within safe limits.
Categories: Climate Change
G8 countries too slow in race against climate change
Berlin: Four days ahead of the G8 summit in Japan a new research examines the climate performance of G8 nations and five emerging economies, and reveals the G8 countries are lagging behind in the race against climate change.
Categories: Climate Change
G8 nations lagging in climate change race
None of the leading industrialized nations are currently on target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to avoid the threshold level for unacceptable risk of catastrophic climate change, according to new research into national policies and performance.
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